]]>http://wfnt.com/fake-groupon-emails-contain-hidden-viruses-dollars-and-sense/feed/0Scott Olson, Getty ImagesHow Did Groupon Nearly Ruin a Bakery Business?http://wfnt.com/groupon-ruins-bakery-business/
http://wfnt.com/groupon-ruins-bakery-business/#commentsWed, 23 Nov 2011 18:06:18 +0000http://tsminteractive.com/?p=62203Continue reading…]]>Groupon deals can be great for helping small businesses build a following, but for one bakery in the UK, offering a cut-rate deal on cupcakes nearly bankrupted the shop.

Rachel Brown’s Need a Cake bakery offered a 75 percent discount on a dozen cupcakes, bringing the $40 price down to $10. What she didn’t expect was for 8,500 people to take her up on the deal, which meant a shop that normally produces about 1,200 cupcakes per month was suddenly expected to make ten times that amount.